Summarizes the Arkansas Creation Trial, which found the law requiring teachers to give balanced treatment to evolutionary ideas and creation science unconstitutional. A Canadian who was a witness at the trial expresses his concern regarding the threat of creationism in Canada and gives three reasons why Canadians must oppose creationism. (RM)

Recent events in the United States have brought anti-evolution efforts into the forefront of the media's coverage of science education, and it makes press in Canadian outlets as well. Canadians can be regularly heard scoffing at American debacles such as the controversy regarding the denigration of evolution in Kansas's science standards, the…

Reports that creationism has been specifically banned from the Provincial curriculum as a legitimate scientific subject in all public schools and level one private schools in British Columbia. (DDR)